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Quotes About Honesty

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;
~ William Shakespeare
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.
~ William Shakespeare
Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
~ William Shakespeare
And, till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine.
~ William Shakespeare
If you were men, as men you are in show, You would not use a gentle lady so; To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.
~ William Shakespeare
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee. LADY GREY: To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
~ William Shakespeare
Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
~ William Shakespeare
I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.
~ William Shakespeare
Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams—all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.
~ William Shakespeare
A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
~ William Shakespeare
Stay, I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me. Viola: That you do think you are not what you are. Olivia: If I think so, I think the same of you. Viola: Then think you right; I am not what I am. Olivia: I would you were as I would have you be. Viola: Would it be better, madam, than I am? I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
~ William Shakespeare
This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirator, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
~ William Shakespeare
For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.
~ William Shakespeare
Dostluk s?caktan soÄŸuÄŸa böyle geçer iÅŸte. Dikkat et, hep böyle olur, Lucilius. Sevgi tükenip bezginliÄŸe yüz tuttu mu, Zoraki nezaket gösterileri baÅŸlar. Aç?k yürekli, candan baÄŸl? bir insan gösteriÅŸ yapmaz.
~ William Shakespeare
Sit down: thou art no flatterer: I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid!
~ William Shakespeare
Oh, you are well tuned now, But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.
~ William Shakespeare
Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
~ William Shakespeare
And I'll be sworn 'tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.
~ William Shakespeare
For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.
~ William Shakespeare
more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain. But
~ William Styron
it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.
~ William Styron
You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.
~ William W. Johnstone
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
~ Unknown